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Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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I remember a Freakonomics episode that described an experimental alternative to traffic cops: a "good driver" lottery.
If you're "caught" driving the speed limit, you get entered into a lottery. Less adversarial relationship with traffic cops and more drivers would be incentivized to drive safe more often.
Edit: It was apparently an article, not a podcast.
But that would require giving money away rather than making money.